LOT 3239
Lydia, Hierocaesarea AE 16mm. Circa 100-54 BC.
Head of Apollo to right / Bow and quiver between AP monogram and IEΡ monogram; all within wreath. GRPC Lydia, 1; Imhoof-Blumer, Lyd. Stadtmünzen 3. Very Fine.(4.09gr, 16mm, 5h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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Sicily, Syracuse AE Tetras. Time of Timoleon and the Third Democracy, circa 344-332 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
ΖΕΥΣ ΕΛΕΥΘ-ΟΣ, laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios to left; behind, in the field to right, star of eight rays / ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ. triskeles to left. Calciati 82; HGC 2, 1457; SNG ANS 544; SNG Morcom 720. 6.46gr, 19mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Slightly tooled.
Ex John Moore, York, UK, in the late 1990s. Property of a Harrow, UK gentleman. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos I Soter AE 22mm. 281-261 BC. Uncertain mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
Laureate head to right / BΑΣΙΛΕΩ[Σ] ΑΝΤΙΟΧ[ΟΥ], Artemis standing to left, wearing short chiton, endromides, and quiver over shoulder, crowning the king's name with wreath in her right hand, and holding spear in her left, monogram in outer right field. Cf. SC 1123; BMC -; cf. HGC 9, 472; Newell -; Houghton -; Savoca Numismatik, Auction 21, 212; CNG e-560, 207. 12.11gr, 22mm, 11h.
Very Fine. Extremely rare.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Asia Minor, Uncertain Mint AR Hemiobol. 4th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Turreted head of female to right / Monogram; M below. CNG E-573, lot 279 var. (kerykeion, no M); CNG E-575, 174; otherwise, unpublished in the standard references. 0.29gr, 7mm, 3h.
Very Fine. Very rare.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
CNG note: 'Prior sales speculated this type may be of Pnytagoras of Salamis, but this was based on a vague similarity of the obverse type to some issues of that king, and an unlikely reading of the monogram as being formed of the letters ΠN.'
